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Thread: Pre-upgrade 8.04-to-8.10 updates failed

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    Angry Pre-upgrade 8.04-to-8.10 updates failed

    I want to upgrade 8.04 to 8.10, so I checked "Normal releases" in Software Sources|Updates, and ran Update Manager, clicked Check, and it said it was downloading updates (1 of 22). So I waited...then it said an error had occured (I'm set to "Server for Ireland"

    W: Failed to fetch http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...tion-en_IE.bz2 Unable to connect to ie.archive.ubuntu.com http:

    W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
    So it won't let me update, so I can't upgrade in place. I tried setting Sources to "Main server" and got

    W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...tion-en_IE.bz2 Unable to connect to archive.ubuntu.com http: [IP: 91.189.88.31 80]

    W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
    I tried several nearby repos, but they all give similar errors.

    Is it still possible to upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 over the network? Is there a way to selectively disable the i18n stuff? I wanted to do an upgrade-in-place by staes to 9.04, because the installer CDs don't appear to provide any way to preserve existing data, only to wipe the partition. I'd rather try to keep my /home directory; and I also have Windows in another partition as well.

    Baffled...

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    Re: Pre-upgrade 8.04-to-8.10 updates failed

    According to this thread there is a package anon-proxy that can give you this error. If anon-proxy is installed, remove it using Synaptic or apt-get (try to remove it completely) and restart, then try again.

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    Re: Pre-upgrade 8.04-to-8.10 updates failed

    Quote Originally Posted by dstew View Post
    According to this thread there is a package anon-proxy that can give you this error. If anon-proxy is installed, remove it using Synaptic or apt-get (try to remove it completely) and restart, then try again.
    Thanks for the idea. Fortunately I found I could wipe and install 9.10 which fixed all the problems.

    Never do upgrades: always wipe and install from scratch.

    P

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